The steering committee assembled to usher recommendations for the redevelopment of Denver’s biggest tourist lure will announce tomorrow that the most radical of the three options originally pitched has been dropped.

The so-called Option 3 that would have diverted one of the pair of mall shuttles over to 15th Street has been deemed unworkable, John Desmond, a co-chair of the steering committee told me this afternoon.

“The steering committee has eliminated Option 3,” Desmond, a top official at the Downtown Denver Partnership, said. “We’re focusing our attention on options one and two and some analysis of alternatives that have been brought up.”

You can learn more tomorrow at a public meeting concerning the once-in-a-generation mall redo at the Warwick Hotel from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Another co-chair, Bob Kochevar of Denver Public Works, offers several reasons why.

With the 15th Street option “you’ve added a number of equations and a number of problems” to the mix.

Joey Bunch has been a reporter for 28 years, including the last 12 at The Denver Post. For various newspapers he has covered the environment, water issues, politics, civil rights, sports and the casino industry.